Book Review: Healing (1)

-

He Healeth The Wounded Heart

By: D. Ryan Porter

Recommend or not, to whom, for what reason:

Yes. I recommend it to all Christians seeking to understand how to better apply the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ for healing, whether from personal sin or sins against them. Particularly recommended for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Some of the references used are pulled specifically from their books of scripture and leaders of their Church, but can be understood generally, and well, by a member of any Christian faith.

 

Anyone seeking to understand what the Atonement of Jesus Christ means for them right now, today.

3 Things of Interest:

1.    Suffering and its usefulness. Everything in life is meant to give us experience. Pain is a valuable part of the experience. Understanding that, and knowing what it is meant to help us accomplish is powerful. I have many close friends and family members who have left any faith in Christ because they cannot believe a God who loves could allow such injustices and suffering experienced in this mortal realm. The opposite is actually true, and delving into that wrestle with God brings great fruits.

2.    Facing Emotions. All emotions are given from God to inform our mortal experiences and perceptions of it. They are not good or bad in nature. Christ also experienced every emotion. Learning to move through them, rather than deny them and shoving them down. They will express in a physical ailment if not allowed to be expressed in other healthy ways.

3.    I understand daily repentance better. Many personal stories and stories of family, friends, neighbors and clients. These illustrations of applications helped.

3 points of disagreement:

1.    None.

1 Take-away or application:

A process for identifying negative patterns and tracing those patterns back to the source of false beliefs I function from and where they originated. To then allow for Christ to heal them.

Is this a classic for the personal library?

          Yes.

Unfiltered notes:

Too engrossed to be taking notes. I’m sure there will be notes on future readings.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Would I Know Him?

-
 What would it be like to meet the Lord? What would it be like to hear his voice? To kneel at his feel? To feel the prints of nails in his hands and feet, the spear wound in his side? What would he ask me to do? Would he ask me to do more than I could have ever imagined? A greater work than I could have ever discovered for myself? Or would he ask me to do as the holy spirit has always asked me to do? Would he tell me I have been doing well, or will he chasten me for  not listening and obeying when the spirit told me before? Am I far removed from his spirit, and would I find him foreign and hard to recognize? Or would I see his face and know he is my master? Would I know his voice and fell the stir in my soul? Do I spend enough time with him now, that recognition would be obvious, conversation would be easy, it woud be familiar, comfortable, and joyful as it has always been? Have I invested in my relationship with him? Could I call it the most intimate relationship I have?
Read more

Musings of a Recovering Micro Managing Mother

-
Sitting at the park, all by myself, out of view from where my children are playing. The youngest is 4 years old, and perfectly capable of communication. Oldest is 8. I don't normally do this, but I think I may more often. It's a public park. There are lots of other families here. Most of the parents are right by the playground or even on the playground mulch supervising and helping their children should they have the slightest difficulty. . . And I used to. I am studying; out in nature, under the tree my oldest picked for us to sit under for lunch, before being abandoned for the playground and the new friends waiting there. Most parents are monitoring their childrens interactions with all the other children on the playground, ready to offer quick correction if there is anything in the slightest wrong with their behavior. I used to do that (most days I do/did). I don't think that works long term. I hope I remember to not do that. The picnic table I am sitting at has a half e...
Read more

The Real Challenge

-
The Real Challenge I wandered, completely lost, into the wilderness. I found the a Lord there. Then I found myself. That wasn't the hard part. The real challenge was keeping who I found with me when I walked back into "reality."
Read more